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Psalms 58

Psalms 58

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    For the choir director: A psalma of David, to be sung to the tune “Do Not Destroy!”

    Justice — do you rulersb know the meaning of the word?
    Do you judge the people fairly?
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    God Who Judges the Earth

    To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktama of David.

    Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods?b
    Do you judge the children of man uprightly?
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    No! You plot injustice in your hearts.
    You spread violence throughout the land.
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    No, in your hearts you devise wrongs;
    your hands deal out violence on earth.
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    These wicked people are born sinners;
    even from birth they have lied and gone their own way.
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    The wicked are estranged from the womb;
    they go astray from birth, speaking lies.
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    They spit venom like deadly snakes;
    they are like cobras that refuse to listen,
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    They have venom like the venom of a serpent,
    like the deaf adder that stops its ear,
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    ignoring the tunes of the snake charmers,
    no matter how skillfully they play.
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    so that it does not hear the voice of charmers
    or of the cunning enchanter.
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    Break off their fangs, O God!
    Smash the jaws of these lions, O LORD!
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    O God, break the teeth in their mouths;
    tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
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    May they disappear like water into thirsty ground.
    Make their weapons useless in their hands.c
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    Let them vanish like water that runs away;
    when he aims his arrows, let them be blunted.
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    May they be like snails that dissolve into slime,
    like a stillborn child who will never see the sun.
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    Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime,
    like the stillborn child who never sees the sun.
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    God will sweep them away, both young and old,
    faster than a pot heats over burning thorns.
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    Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns,
    whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!c
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    The godly will rejoice when they see injustice avenged.
    They will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.
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    The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance;
    he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.
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    Then at last everyone will say,
    “There truly is a reward for those who live for God;
    surely there is a God who judges justly here on earth.”
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    Mankind will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous;
    surely there is a God who judges on earth.”
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